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document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional—deposit-taking—banks in …Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …
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The paper sets out and analyzes a simple model of money, banking, and price level determination. The model is first used to illustrate recent developments in the theory and analysis of banking, particularly the distinction between the portfolio management services provided by banks and their...
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and central bank conservatism on economic performance. Several striking conclusions emerge. In relatively centralized … of central bank conservatism. A radical-populist central banker who cares not at all about inflation (alternatively, who …
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With policy rates near the zero bound, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has introduced a series of unconventional monetary …
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This paper asks whether the BoJ''s recent experience with unconventional monetary easing has been effective in supporting economic activity and inflation. Using a structural VAR model, the paper finds some evidence that BoJ''s monetary policy measures during 1998-2010 have had an impact on...
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these operations. Despite a vast literature on the topic, central bank approaches and practices vary considerably. In this …
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Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. Banks established connections to...
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This paper investigates whether developing and emerging market countries can implement monetary policies similar to those used by advanced countries during the recent global crisis - injecting significant amounts of money into the financial system without facing major short-run adverse...
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This paper presents an overview of exposures in the balance sheets of central banks, banks, and other depository institutions during the past decade, with emphasis on asset growth and currency composition. It exploits the IMF's SRF-based monetary data to show: (i) there was a widely observed...
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